The description "I am putting approx 60-70 cameras in series ... To film some gymnasts." leads me to believe he will filming a gymnast going over a vault kind of thing, where you end up with a series of still shots and can compare one gymnast's form with another doing the same action kind of thing. In which case the cameras will not be spread that far apart around a gymnasium, but concentrated along a 3-4 meter kind of distance.

Here is of what he has in the link he provided in 1st post"I am creating a shot where the camera moves quickly showing an actor in ultra-slow motion. 40ms is approx 25 fps - PAL format and close enough to film 24fps. I can slow it down to 12fps for a slow mo shot."

So these cameras will all be fairly close.Interesting discussion on powering them all, getting them all set the same (menus & stuff).Reads to me like a switching regulated power supply would have solved some issues - he should have come here sooner!

The other discussion is all 2009 - we're not all replying to an old post, are we?

I guess not the last post date 29 Jan 2011 says"Ok! the project is back on. For the last question. 12V to USB adapters are common. The camera should still work with the 5V on USB. Less than 2 bucks with a car USB adapter."Didn't see how the trigger wire gets connected to a camera, just that 1 remark in this thread about a 5v trigger.

G Morning , I am awake now and know exactly what you mean with the 10 clock pulses.

I didn't look at the posters link to another forum, and it looks like he will have a heavy power lead running to all the cameras, and as Crossroads says, they will be line abreast next to some equipment, so individual cables in a loom would probably be easy.

WOW. I should have posted here earlier. Just reading the responses. The cameras are 30-50 cm in distance from each other. And the dates are correct, I starting filming my first feature, and this project got held off.Too many teething issues. Turns out I need a voltage stabilizer before EACH camera for the power anyway.

Solutions in this post @Crossroad, @retrolefty - Seeeduino Mega solution 70 outputs. I will just need to connect 70 in parallel and have the advantage of switchable outputs. Perhaps I could change the timing later

@Boffin1 - Attached your plans to this post. 1 556 - and we use a 10ms delay to cascade, and a 100ms output to trigger the camera. Hmm! I do have to wire a small heatsink and voltage stabilizer just before camera anyway. So perhaps I could put all this on a PCB. 70 of them

BTW, no flashes used. Too many problems with delay, and the light that remains after the flash.

@Crossroads - I did use switching regulated power supply. Still have problems with the camera turning off with VERY minor voltage drops. One of the posters on that thread needed to voltage regulators close to each camera.

@Graynomad Hmm! I would prefer 1 - 4 or 5 core cable instead of 70 parallel cables. Just googling 4013. Are you in Sydney ?

@Graynomad I think this is what you are suggesting. Let me know if I'm wrong.4013 is 2x flip-flops I need 2 4013s per camera for approx 80ms pulse.

Let FF1 and FF2 belong to 4013-1 and FF3 FF4 from 4013-2

FF1 have relevant inputs Clk-1 D-1 Q-1 Qbar-1Same for FF2 FF3 FF4

Clk-1 takes the pulse input. Tie D-1, Qbar-1. Tie Q-1 to Clk-2. Tie Q-2 to Qbar-2Each output divides by 2, so a 10ms pulse on Clk-1 becomes a 40 ms pulse on Q-2.When this is propagated to Q-4, it becomes a 80ms pulse, which could be enough to trigger the camera.

As I see it you only need half of a 4013 (or a single FF SMD chip) per camera (drawing attached).

It's no different to using a normal shift reg as has been mentioned above, after all a SR is just N flip flops in a single package.

Pulse CLK 70 times at 10mS, the first 10 times feed a 1 into the first FF, the next 60 feed 0 to the first FF. The 100mS pulse will ripple along the cameras, each 10mS camera N will trigger and N-10 will have it's pulse end.

Timing and pulse with can easily be modified in software, but pulse width must be a multiple of the timing interval.

Note that the time between pulses will be slighly > 10mS due to the loop overhead, if that matters you could use delayMicroseconds() instead and change DELAY to something like 9900.

Also you can adjust the time between cameras firing by changing the same value (DELAY) and adjust the pulse width by changing TRIGGER_PULSE_WIDTH but it will always be an integral number of clock pulses, ie it can only be 80,90,100,110 etc mS, not 95.______Rob